Slingers 435 Milborne Woodman 426

Slingers continued their impressive start to the season with a 9 pin victory over Milborne Woodman at the Trinity Club on Thursday night.
Martin Green was top for the home side with 62, while A.Brown was top for the Milborne side with 61.

Skimmers 383 Plodders 367
 
Plodders started well with hands of 61, 62 & 58 to go 17 ahead after 3 hands, spares of 13 & 14 from Barrie Andrews.Skimmers pulled 5 back on the 4th. Plodders early form deserted them over the last three hands as they finished with scores of 42, 45 & 46 leaving Skimmers to run out winners by 16 pins.
 
Skimmers - Steve Willsher 52
Plodders - Barrie Andrews 65
 

Preliminary round
Top score in the ladies cup was L Darley of Brewers Bumpkins with 69

Crazy Ladies 352 (M Fowler 53) Colliton Devils 378 (E Fagg 54)
Forget-Me-Nots 363 (V Hopkins, M Edwards 50) Crackerjacks 367 (M Cutler 53) 
The Rivals 326 (A Burden 46) Brewers Bumpkins 376 (L Darley 69)
Colliton Apprentices 365 ( N Fowler 58) Blackjacks 329 (J Hodder 49) 
Colliton Criminals 332 (L Buckley 51) Colli-Flowers 351 (C Henshall 53) 
Colliton Bloomers 382 (B Childs 56) Westenders 348 (S Dickson 51) 
 

Crazy Ladies 352 Colliton Devils 378 (Ladies Cup)

Colliton Devils won through to the 1st round of the cup after beating Crazy Ladies at the Trinity Club in the preliminary round.
The home side got off to a good start hitting a 56 hand and the Devils reply was 49 to trail by 7 pins, the home side pulled 1 more pin on the next hand 57 to 56.
A low 43 hand from Crazy Ladies gave the Devils a chance and a 52 hand by the Colliton team put them 1 up. Devils pulled 4 more pins on the next hand 48 to 52.
The game looked over on the fifth hand as the Trinity side hit a 37 hand and Devils replied with a 59 hand helped with a 12 stick up from Kate Taylor to go 27 pins up.
But Crazy Ladies put in the best hand of the night on the sixth hand hitting 64 with a 15 from A Cartmell, while Devils hit 47 to leave just 10 between the teams.
Crazy Ladies were unable to put any pressure on the devils on the last hand hitting 47 and the Devils hit their best hand of the night a 63 hand with a 12 from Emma Fagg to win by 26 pins.
Top score for the home side was Mari Fowler with 53, while Emma Fagg was top for Devils.  

The big match in Section A takes place on Thursday when the top two Wide Boys and 3CA meet at the Colliton Club on alley 2, also on Thursday in a match brought forward a day Marco Wanderers host The Imps, both sides are on 6 points like the top two. Milborne Woodman who last week beat Marco face a tough match away to Slingers at the Trinity Club on Thursday night.
On Friday unbeaten Breakaways host the Patriots at Wool, while at the Bladen Club Puddletown Wanderers take on Brewers Bees, who are still searching for their first win. In town on Friday night Allsorts play Colliton Spares at the Bull's Head, which should be a high scoring game, while Plodders have a difficult match away to Skimmers at the Gurkha Inn. Dewlish Monsters have their bye.